Show I 1 i hashing all J A merra christmas and a d happa progressive rew ear f morrison U let us repair your radiator NOW you cant afford to freeze it W E cook ER aa 2 WEEKS TO CHRISTMAS shop early mail early buy christmas S seals e a I 1 S I 1 st ext us wl ims you our lamn Sr tinga anu aub lp for a A rw ar abelt drug ris co WE SHALL BE HEALED by victor croley aada wistful and still on porches row on row we wait and hope and watch life hurry past and it is one with us when shadows fall and all the same when morning comes at last we know the prize of patience and of rest we know that only thus is victory won but we are young and driven by the fires of work to do before our webs are spun we calm our hearts we know his flis way is best and faith becomes an all protecting shield for each of us another dawn will break someday we shall be will be healed EDITOR S notel this poem was britten expressly for or the christina christmas sesa sale by victor croley who was con confined cont loed tined to bed w th tuberculosis for or six years atter after a halt hall starved ana and neglected childhood I 1 went to work at the ripe age ot of twelve 1 he wiltes 1 was as tortured by envy of other others happiness and the ambition to b become aw rich enough to have a vacation so that alter after working beyond my strength a I 1 day I 1 spent I 1 alt alf the night in i 1 ab ic to libraries and at night schools I 1 was kid ed out he be ause I 1 couldn coulden t stay a ake at one time be he got a job s ng ng in a heap movie show so he could go to h gh school during the day when I 1 a e was Ligh lightern teen years old laid he under pounds and had already entered upon a promising career as an advertising writer in new york city two tao years later he was discovered to have a tar far advanced case ot of tuberculosis today thai is to modern sanatorium technique he tie we gs bounds eels feels better than ever before and la in looking forward to a second and I 1 appler start in life my case shou d be te a varn g to everyou who does not know enough to take care of h myself says mr croley why annot young people be taught the need of good health habits as a protection against tuberculosis I 1 hate to think that anyone else should I 1 a ae e to go through what I 1 have suffered because be he did not k tor or know twe ty five years christmas seals h ve been trying to prevent just such cases as mr croley 9 by teaching the facts I 1 1 a e learned through bitter experience and has bas outlined so concisely in tahia his last two sentences ite amirr n att j t u we hope that you will have a successful crop in 19 1933 3 3 our efforts are and always will be for your welfare I 1 J G peppard seed company t t f air arr far for gou a fahmy in alib a jappu nartu iu brur oft ur thornton drug company |